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'The Hunger' is inspired by the Donner Party, in which American pioneers resorted to cannibalism to avoid starvation. A 3.5-star book review.

The Donner Party spurned the advice of a mountain man they met, who told them to stick to the trail west and avoid an alternative route.

TRAVEL DONNER -- Monument to emigrants at Donner Memorial State Park. The figures are meant to be generic pioneers, rather than specific members of the Donner Party.

The Donner party story, splashed across newspaper headlines as soon as the survivors limped off the mountain, began in April 1846 when George Donner, a successful farmer in his 60s, his wife ...

Allan Wolf talks about why he wrote 'The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep,' a finalist for the Times Book Prize, and ponders the best way to eat people.

This map charts the Donner Party’s route from Independence, Missouri to Sutter’s Fort, California.

Most everyone has heard of the Donner Party and the salacious stories of cannibalism and the wrong turns, bad decisions, dissension, mendacity, murder, accident and unbelievable hardship.

The group had elected to use a “shortcut” to California. Hastings Cutoff On July 31, the Donner Party entered Hastings Cutoff, which would take the group south of the Great Salt Lake.